In the past few years, the Internet has been taken back by
individuals from the institutions. The advent of Web 2.0
has seen this happen in a quick and easy manner. Blogs,
Social Networking Websites, and Social Book marking are new
concepts that have been achieved wild success in the past
few years.
Social book marking allows Internet users to store and
share their bookmarks, links of any websites they may have
liked. These links can then be shared either with a private
group, or can be viewed and accessed by anyone who visits
the social book marking website.
There are various social book marking websites today. Most
of these websites will show what sites their users liked
and disliked to anyone, but the more advanced features
would require one to sign up on the social book marking
website.
Though Social Book marking has been very popular since the
2000s, it first started in 1996. however, due to the lack
of a proper business plan and the dot com bubble burst, it
was not much of a success.
Social book marking made a comeback somewhere in 2003, with
major companies planning out social book marking websites.
Web 2.0 has made the success of social book marking
possible.
Social book marking is very beneficial to the casual as
well as a advanced internet user. Many a times, there are
certain software applications available on the Internet,
whose links are difficult to find for the casual user. This
is where the social bookmarks can help people. It is also
useful for open source software. Many open source software
do not have the common bookmarks and are hosted on
non-commercial servers. Social book marking helps people
find these links too.
Social book marking is good news for article marketing.
People marketing products can write about their product on
a article marketing website, and then submit their links to
a social book marking website. This will give a dual
traffic to their articles.
One of the biggest features of social book marking websites
is tagging, that is, users can tag their bookmarks in a
group.
Social book marking has grown since it had first come up.
Today, they have enhanced themselves and also offer more
features than previously done. For example, most book
marking websites offer the users a chance to rank their
bookmarks. Of course, all this works towards the popularity
of the link that they have submitted.
Some social book marking websites also offer a feature
through which their users can create feeds of their
bookmarks. With this, users can get RSS feeds of any links
that are added to the website immediately.
There are, however, some disadvantages of Social book
marking. However, since Social book marking is a user-based
concept, these disadvantages are more about unscrupulous
use of social book marking than any problems in the concept
itself.
Some spammers use social book marking tools to spam. Also,
users who are not conversant with the Internet will not be
able to give proper information to the users of social book
marking websites.
Some social book marking websites offer their users their
own toolbars, which keep a record of the links that they
have bookmarked.
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Colin Meunier is a Successful Home Business Coach and
Mentor! To learn how you can use a breakthrough marketing
system to become more successful in your home business
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